Pinna

Pinna is a genus of bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pinnidae. The type species of the genus is Pinna rudis.

Pinna

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinnidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 339 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 19 of 1186 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 1186 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 1186 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 10 of 1186 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 90 of 1186 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 310 of 1186 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 94 of 1186 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 123 of 1186 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 127 of 1186 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 211 of 1186 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 34 of 1186 occurrencesEocene — about 45 of 1186 occurrencesOligocene — about 11 of 1186 occurrencesMiocene — about 55 of 1186 occurrencesPliocene — about 22 of 1186 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 1186 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences342–330 Mya — about 7 occurrences330–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–295 Mya — about 10 occurrences295–283 Mya — about 3 occurrences283–271 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences271–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–248 Mya — about 6 occurrences248–236 Mya — about 15 occurrences236–224 Mya — about 19 occurrences224–212 Mya — about 11 occurrences212–200 Mya — about 67 occurrences200–189 Mya — about 125 occurrences189–177 Mya — about 166 occurrences177–165 Mya — about 79 occurrences165–153 Mya — about 59 occurrences153–141 Mya — about 96 occurrences141–130 Mya — about 49 occurrences130–118 Mya — about 37 occurrences118–106 Mya — about 20 occurrences106–94 Mya — about 30 occurrences94–83 Mya — about 59 occurrences83–71 Mya — about 53 occurrences71–59 Mya — about 111 occurrences59–47 Mya — about 16 occurrences47–35 Mya — about 30 occurrences35–24 Mya — about 15 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 47 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 53 occurrences339.9 Mya129 ka354 Mya0 Mya

1,186 occurrences of Pinna on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1,186 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

311 formations

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WNayband — 32.40°N, 57.45°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.35°N, 57.45°ENeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°EPuchenque — 35.10°S, 70.12°WPuchenque — 35.43°S, 69.92°WPuchenque — 35.48°S, 69.92°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.41°N, 111.04°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.33°N, 111.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.10°N, 110.84°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.98°N, 110.85°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.86°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.83°N, 110.87°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.51°N, 111.30°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.67°N, 111.58°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.48°N, 111.48°WTwin Creek Limestone — 39.97°N, 111.52°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.38°N, 111.21°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.51°N, 110.51°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.33°N, 110.50°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.45°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.45°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.42°N, 110.78°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.89°N, 88.96°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 31.95°N, 86.70°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WCalcaire a gryphees — 48.00°N, 6.00°EBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.62°WBudden Canyon — 40.41°N, 122.68°WLadd — 33.73°N, 117.62°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 51.00°N, 3.00°WCotinguiba — 10.81°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.88°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.84°S, 37.12°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.42°N, 119.27°WVaqueros — 34.44°N, 119.20°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.05°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.82°N, 121.06°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.70°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WOwl Creek — 34.49°N, 89.00°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 35.85°S, 69.80°WRoca — 34.60°S, 69.72°WRoca — 35.90°S, 69.53°WRoca — 35.52°S, 69.72°WRoca — 37.62°S, 67.71°WRoca — 35.83°S, 69.67°WRoca — 34.77°S, 69.55°WAgrio — 38.98°S, 68.00°WAgrio — 37.77°S, 70.40°WAgrio — 37.80°S, 70.17°WAgrio — 38.30°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 38.05°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 38.73°S, 69.92°WAgrio — 37.27°S, 70.48°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESawtooth — 47.78°N, 112.69°WSawtooth — 47.72°N, 112.72°WSawtooth — 47.63°N, 112.71°WSawtooth — 47.62°N, 112.77°WSawtooth — 47.52°N, 112.69°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.13°N, 0.05°ESpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.15°N, 0.02°EProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°W

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The named rock units Pinna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 287 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 390 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pinna and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pinna and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 998 sites for Pinna, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

380 references

Each of the 1,186 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 368 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Pinna

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pinna sp. · YPM:IP:YPM IP 008880

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPinnidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758